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The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting read more
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if read more
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of read more
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization read more
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
